What war? Campaign 2008 is top story of April, May, June
In April, May and June, coverage of the war and related issues made up just under 15 percent of news reports, compared to 22 percent for the first quarter.
And which of the candidates received most of the attention? None other than my favorite: Sen. Barack Obama, Mr. Change Agent himself. Barack Obama drew the most coverage among Democratic presidential contenders, taking the last-quarter lead from Hillary Rodham Clinton and with John Edwards a distant third. But mentions of Edwards rose while coverage of Obama and Clinton dropped. Coverage of leading Republican contenders John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney was more evenly split, the study said. Let's see... perhaps that's due to the fact that all three suck.
The Democratic candidates are doing their best to rub the sheen off Barack Obama, who I'd call the People's Favorite. The big push now is to say that Obama lacks experience. True. Compared to most of the others he does. Obama's spin on that is to say to them, show me what your years of experience has brought us.
Obama isn't blind. He sees that the race has become as much about him as anything else.
"The thing that I wished had happened was that all the people on this stage had asked these questions before they authorized us getting in," Obama said, referring to the war in Iraq.
"I make that point because earlier we were talking about the issue of experience," he added. "Nobody had more experience than Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney."
Where does the great Fox News stand in all this? Obviously, their coverage is both fair and balanced.... LOL! I almost said that with a straight face. The political section of Foxnews.com leads with this: Rove: GOP in Position to Beat Dems in '08. Right, from the mastermind who brought us the midterm Democratic landslide of Nov. 2007.
All is not lost, folks. Stay tuned....
- August 20, 2007
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